Re: Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta 1 Installer available for download

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Paul Glutting [mailto:jpglutting@vqp.udl.es]
> Sent: 10 August 2004 10:22
> To: Aleksander Kmetec
> Cc: Dave Page; pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org;
> pginstaller-devel@pgfoundry.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta
> 1 Installer available for download
>
> Sorry Aleksander, but I can't really remember what I did. I
> had a service running from a Cygwin install of  Postgres, and
> I was messing around with the command line for
> installing/uninstalling the service, and had to reboot
> several times. I initially tried to change the path of the
> sevice executable, and it was a big mess. This was the
> unzippable version of Postgres from about a moth ago, so it
> is not really relevant to this installer.
>
> As an aside, Dave, can we get the \bin and \lib paths in the
> PATH variable as part of the install? I am not sure if that
> will create a mess if they are already there ...

We're trying to avoid that to prevent problems with multiple
installations on the same machine. All the shortcuts to psql, and
backups/restores from pgAdmin should work fine without.

> Also, my PGDATA variable is still set at c:\postgres\data -
> but it does not seem to have an effect on Postgres. I am
> going to try accessing postgres with some python modules, and
> see what that does.

The service is installed with the -D option to specify the data
directory (iirc) which overrides any environment variables - again, this
is to allow multiple installations in the future.

Regards, Dave.